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"TRUST. That is God’s answer. And in that moment I realized just how beautiful and perfect that answer is. I realized exactly why He hadn’t given me the clarity I had so desired. Because of His enormous love for me and because it is the last thing I actually needed in that moment. Every deep, intimate relationship is rooted in Trust. Of course Love is at the core of the relationship but without trust you can’t have love. I realized God is about relationship. He is about love ultimately. He wants to go on the journey WITH me.  In that moment a weight lifted.And I felt so much freedom because I didn’t feel the weight of having to “make the right decision” anymore. It made me realize God is all about the process exactly because that is the part that draws me closer to Him. And for the first time I was able to exhale and learn to simply enjoy the process and the experience of real life giving trust. I realized that clarity will come eventually but not without first walking...

Jonathan Evans said one time at a event I attended at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship that we are serving the wrong trinity. Emphasizing that we are serving "Me, myself and I". Right there conviction hit me hard. What a timely message wrapped up in just a few words. As hard as it was to hear I was so thankful he said it. It's so easy to be wrapped up in our own lives and gradually grow selfish but God is calling us to be selfless. To be selfless with our time, resources and our lives. He's calling us to examine our motives and our heart. He's calling us to be like Jesus and lay down our lives for others. This isn't always easy. In fact it is harder in difficult moments when life is difficult and our own challenges consume us. During these times especially is when we should refocus our attention on serving others and our relationship with God. Joy comes when we help others. Joy comes when we realize that we aren't alone in this world fighting through difficu...

Apathy  is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion. An  apathetic  individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical, or physical life and the world. Ever felt out of touch with reality? Ever felt like you were just going through the motions of life? There's a possibility that you could be dealing with some level of apathy. Which is normal, we all deal with this from time to time.  But how about when you feel apathetic towards the things of God like church, serving, reading your bible or praying. I can deal with feeling apathetic towards worldly things, like going to work, or cooking and cleaning but when it comes to God and what He requires of me as a Christian, I wrestle with apathy more. I can tell when apathy is starting to overcome me because my attitude gets bad and I become overly emotional and distant.  I've rea...

I recently heard someone say how it is possible for two things to be true at once . Although they were referring to a completely different topic it made me think about God and how a lot of times we forget that all of His attributes work together in perfect harmony . For example a lot of people believe that God is all love but not just and angry at sin. Then on the other side we hear about how God is angry but forget that He is also merciful, slow to anger and patient. When we distort God's attributes and character we present to people a false God that isn't of the Bible. This can be very dangerous and very hard not to do but it is absolutely necessary.  "The Christian life from one angle is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, being slowly replaced with God's own insistence on who He is.  This is hard work. It takes a lot of sermons and a lot of suffering to believe that God's deepest heart i...

Luke 5:16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Jesus set the example for how we as believers should live our lives. He set the example of how we should care for others and make time to pray. The world is going crazy right now and everything feels so uneasy and heavy. Especially today with everything that happened at the White House. Lawlessness and chaos is becoming so normal and its heartbreaking to see the state of the world. As believers it is our duty to pray, especially in times like these.  Growing up my grandma would always tell me to go in my closet and pray. Pray about everything because God hears me. Then I didn't have the relationship that I have with God now but I would pray. I look back now and can see how those sweet moments have helped shape my faith and relationship with God today. So thankful for my grandma teaching me early on how important prayer is. "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand ...

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is side eyeing 2021 looking to see what big thing is going to happen this year that throws off our plans and our idea of how life should go. The past few days I've talked about expectations a lot and how when they aren't met we grow disappointed and sometimes even cynical.  We all have expectations on how we think our lives should go and how our relationships should be. Often times for many of us, especially in 2020 our expectations have been let down. From travel plans being cancelled to not being able to spend the holidays with family as normal. At some point we've all experienced disappointment in 2020. Unmet expectations and disappointments can grow any heart hard and distant if not careful. I know because I've been there. When we place our hopes in dreams in this world, it is inevitable that disappointment will come. The Bible says in John 16:33 that we will have trouble in this world. We will be disappointed an...